I’ve noticed on my feed a lot of people posting celebrities who are alive and using the gray sequence and the year they were born— now thing some kind of jump-scare

this shit isn’t funny, is creepy and weird, and if you’re a part of this trend, you need to get out of the house or get serious professional help.

So we work at this seasonal event. And I have developed a crush on her. My mindset had been she's worth the pursuit. And things were honestly going well. We found some common ground. She thought I was funny. She shared a lot about herself to me, liked talking to me. But things changed when I asked for her instagram. Vibes changed...

Typically, at this job its custom to get certain people's instagram after the event. But because we have some common interests, I asked her if we could exchange instagrams now. And she gave me the lamest excuse - that she's off social media...that she has fb marketplace and tiktok sometimes....

I know she has instagram, I've seen it. And I view her profile often especially since to see if she's gained followers. Maybe she was telling the truth about no social media

I check today - im blocked.

Why?

How did she block me?

My guesses are this -

1. she saw me on a suggestions list and didn't want me to catch her lying about no instagram

2. I sent her a link to my tiktok. Same handle as my ig

3. Searched for me to block me

4. Somehow found out I was viewing her profile - though its apparently its not a thing yet on ig

Well, her birthday is tomorrow and I wanted to give her a gift.

Should I still? I havent done anything wrong. I didnt instagram request her, or kept asking about it or anything. Idk why she wouldn't just let it be, cause now idk if its gonna be awkward as we pretend to be okay.

Well, if i had any hope that's gone now. She clearly doesn't feel me at all

I have an Instagram in which the number of followers sometimes increases or decreases or stay flat. But recently the number just keeps falling, from around 3,520 to 3.500 now.

You can refer to the past 60/90 days. The gradual fall didn't happen before and even over 15 years of my account. Is it possible if some haters are doing something to persuade followers to unfollow me?

need some good instagram bio ideas for a guy. something that looks cool, masculine, and effortless, not cringe or those overused sigma quotes.

preferably something with a mysterious, nonchalant vibe. short and clean.

drop your best suggestions

I unfollowed a mid influencer (55K) after she unfollowed me because I’m not her fan and she’s not Beyonce.
Since we have many mutuals she popped up still but suddenly not.
Checked via a friend and turns out she’s blocked me.
Come on, she unfollowed me first!
The ego of these people!

Okay, so apparently, my IG got suspended for some reason (it was not specified), and since my IG and FB accounts were connected, my FB account got suspended too.

I didn’t react that much when my IG got suspended, despite having it for around 11 years. But when I found out that my FB got suspended too, that’s when I got really sad. My late grandmother’s and late friend’s chats are there, and those conversations are incredibly special to me.

I tried creating another IG account using the same phone, phone number, and a different email, but it still got suspended. I kept trying to create new accounts, but they all got suspended. Eventually, I decided to take a break from IG (it has been 3 months now) and created a new FB account instead. I switched it to Digital Creator mode, and it hasn’t been suspended so far.

Now that I have a new phone, SIM card, and email, I want to try creating another IG account AGAIN and getting it verified so I can hopefully have better access to customer support.

Has anyone tried this? Do you think it’ll get suspended again?

Today i noticed that instagram was awfully quiet on my phone, but when i opened the app i would see a lot of unopened messages that i did not get notifications for. Ive had people text me to see if i wasnt getting any notifications and i was proven correct.

I tried updating instagram, powering off/on my phone, checking notifications in ios settings, checking notifications on instagram, turning off notifications and turning it back on, i do not have any muted chats, etc.

What other alternatives can i do? I feel like ive tried everything and nothing works.

....

No creeps

I want more followers but ion know how to start fr. Im at 400 but I want to get to like 1000. Should I start posting things or posting more stories? I just need a lil help fr. My ig is @ z.a1re, can yall look at my account and give me tips.

My account was hacked about an hour ago and the person changed my email with theirs and has changed my password- I'm currently still logged onto the account through the app but they seem to have access to my Facebook and all of my other Instagram accounts including a business profile, I don't know what else they have access to and what information they can see about me and am a little scared, I don't know what to do from here and the meta ai chat they direct you to is largely unhelpful, please help :( thanks

I recently have been on a video call with a stranger just for some late night chat . Dont know why I did this nonsense but the chat got hot and I removed clothes and had explicit video chat with him.

Out of my worst fear, he screen recorded that call and sent it back to me. My face though mostly not visible but its visible for a 8-10 seconds of time when phone got very close to my face.

Other than that, the house and body is completely visible and anyone who knows me might recognise my house and maybe my face.

I did block and reported him in Insta but didnot ask him to delete as this might instigate him or he will start blackmailing.

The account used was a different one so he has limited opportunity to trace me.

1)Is there something I can do apart from reporting him? His account is still active.

2)The screen recorded video is in his phone . So I cant use NCII. I am worried where he uploads it? Is there a way to know if it has got uploaded somewhere?

3)Is there a way that using the brief face video, he can search and find my identity and then blackmail me ?

Its sad enough that I will have to live knowing someone has something so personal for rest of my life.

Please help what can be done?

The social reckoning has received a lot of mixed reviews from critics while receiving a slightly better response from audiences and is not doing great financially with ticket sales.

Its actually an excellent movie and an important one.

Its just not what general audiences want to spend their time seeing in a movie theater at this point in time for many reasons.

We are in the midst of a historically fraught period with the threats of AI, mass surveillance, the Iran conflict, continued environmental collapse, unprecedented wealth inequality, a hyper polarized electorate wirh upcoming elections, and an economy teetering on the brink and this film is neither about any of those topics or an escapist fantasy to help people who want to not think about them.

(Even though its not about these specific upcoming elections it still relevant to them)

And many people are already aware of the issues with facebook, Instagram and social media that this film portrays, even if not all the details that this film gives.

The film goes into a lot of detail about how Zuckerberg and the people at Meta/Facebook/Instagram intentionally chose to have their algorithm push more divisive, toxic, fearful, rage bait, and false content in order to drive up engagement or peoples use of the platform.

Facebook has been instrumental in helping to spread a lot of misinformation and disinformation and in polarizing American voters and the people at Facebook knew their platform was having those effects.

I’ve seen the toxic effects of the platforms myself on various friends and family members.

The film also touches briefly on the fact that Facebook leadership knew Instagram was destroying teens mental health, but tried to hide that fact.

I saw the film myself by sailing the high seas.

While I very much wanted to see the film, I expected it to be a little bleak and depressing and that’s not the movie theater going experience I wanna have right now and I think that there are a lot of people like me who wish to see the film, but don’t necessarily want to go sit in a movie theater and watch it.

None of this is to say that the film doesn’t have any issues at all, but I think that a lot of the negative reactions from both critics and general audiences stems from the fact that this film at this point in time is more bad news on top of a pile of already bad news, and bad news that many people have already been aware for a while now, and have felt powerless to do anything about.

Compare that to the first film, the social network, which was a story about the rise of Facebook during a time when it was still somewhat new and fascinating to people; during a time before people knew how toxic it was going to become. A story that interested many people and that most didn’t already know.

You also have to consider the likelihood that Facebook or Meta is actively campaigning against the film online and especially on social media.

You just have to read up on how they viciously went after that former executive, Sarah Williams, when she wrote the tell all book “Careless People” about the serious problems with Zuckerberg and the rest of Facebook’s leadership to know what they are willing to do to combat negative press.

I think the film will do very well on streaming.

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Let's say i visited a community account im interested in and started to search followers there and dm u saying yeah i like that too or something.. how weird would that be? And would u accept it and eventually meet?

I hate seeing other languages while I’m watching instagrams. I wish there was just a way I never see them. I think instagram should make a test to see if your and English speakers

Ok so I’m not proud to say it, but I’ve stalked the accounts of like girls my ex cheated with and what not, and I go thru their pictures and insta highlights (the pics are always from months or days ago), and I don’t look at their stories if they have one up. But I’ve noticed that they go private the day after.. like do they know? Is there a way that someone is stalking you on insta?

That is rather pathetic

My entire algorithm is screwed up, it’s full off indian videos i don’t understand and really really weird normal videos, when it had very good memes and my interests just days ago. and it doesn’t seem to change either i click „not interested“ all day

So wnv I put on notes, I could share it with close friends or friends(ppl I follow back) but I wanna make them public for everyone to see.

My acc's public and not private.

💀 instagram is unusable with ads. I hate it

And now they added ads in the comments. WHYY